Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Bonnie G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women—past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global development...
by Donald G. Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Rethinking Domestic Violence is the third in a series of books by Donald Dutton critically reviewing research in the area of intimate partner violence (IPV). The research crosses disciplinary lines, including social and clinical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, affective neuropsychology, criminology,...
The Revolution Has Come
Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the leadership,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics...
Violence against Queer People
Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white, middle class men—and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence—racial...
Women and British Party Politics
Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women’s participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas about, and the practice of, descriptive, substantive...
Arresting Dress
Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This publication is the result of theoretical reflections and empirical studies carried out by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW). It explores what other issues, beyond remittances alone, constitute strategic topics for deeper analysis....
Gender before Birth
Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2018
In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an �act of violence against women� and �unethical.� At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Janine Coleman, Gabriel Gianola, Mel Gibson, Michael Goodrum, Tim Hanley, Vanessa Hemovich, Christina Knopf, Christopher McGunnigle, Samira Nadkarni, Ryan North, Lisa Perdigao, Tara Prescott, Philip Smith, and Maite Ucaregui
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Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities
While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality--sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some...
Troubled Masculinities
Reimagining Urban Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In the contemporary urban environment, the once-dominant concept of a ‘masculine’ identity is being replaced by alternative ideas of what it means to be a man. Troubled Masculinities explores and theorizes the ways in which men who experience marginalization in urban settings reimagine and reconstruct...
Masculindians
Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...
Trans/Love
Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Morty Diamond's previous anthology about transgender experiences From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond has sold more than 4,000 copies since publication.
Morty Diamond's previous anthology about transgender experiences From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation,...